The New York Mets sent Raimon Gómez to Baltimore at the 2025 trade deadline as part of the package for Cedric Mullins. Now Baseball America has Gómez — a reliever who has touched 104.5 mph — pegged as the Baltimore Orioles’ breakout pitching prospect hiding behind an ordinary stat line.
In the moment they acquired Mullins, it was clean “win-now” logic: fix an MLB hole with minor league depth. The part that looks rough in hindsight is that Mullins is already gone (he signed a one-year deal with the Rays for 2026), so the trade reads more like rental math than roster building.